CaseUnknown2017

Knoxville, TN, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low0/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-11-24
Where
Knoxville, TN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Long
Geo
35.961, -83.921 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-knoxville-tn-2017-431bba
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Knoxville, TN shows up 138 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from Tennessee in 2017.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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